Llandrindod High School - Includes online prospectus, with information about departments and the Sixth Form.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Education "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Education
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Education
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Education I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Education
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Education Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Education
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Education
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Education "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Education
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) My other wife is beautiful. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Education
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Education Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Education
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Education It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Education
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Education
